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cracked version runs faster, smoother, and uses way less VRAM and RAM

Well yeah, Denuvo is a cache defeat mechanism. It bloats executables for repetitious obfuscation. If CPUs still worked like 386s and 68000s, having eight copies of every function and bouncing merrily between them would make no difference. But modern processors are only fast because they spend negligible time waiting for RAM to get its act together. Every squandered microsecond is a thousand cycles burned.

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Do 386s not have caches? I thought they did.

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Evidently some later variants did. I guess it was straightforward to bolt that on, once the 486 line had it as standard.

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